fine_sandy_bottom @ fine_sandy_bottom @discuss.tchncs.de

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Ah yes. Silly me. I'm sure Palestinians are looking forward to living happily ever after under trumps protection. This whole "ethnic cleansing" thing is just the news media I'm sure.

I've done something extremely general.

It's regressive in the sense that poor people spend more of their money on goods and services that include VAT.

It's also "broad based" in that wealthy people spend more money (in total) on things, and the vendors of those things collect the tax.

For example, if a company in Australia sells a $11m private jet to some asshole, that asshole just paid $1m in taxes.

Said asshole may well pay no income tax by virtue of their ability to disappear taxable income through complex business structures.

I feel you.

There's all these problems and everyone just seems determined to make them worse rather than working on solutions. It's bonkers.

Sometimes "trying" is counter productive.

Sorry mate this dumb factoid doesn't withstand even a moment's scrutiny.

If you donate $10 you might save $3 in tax but you lost all $10.

The Gates Foundation might use a few cents from that $10 for fancy dinners for Gates and his wife or whatever but there are auditors to ensure that the money is used for the people they purport to help. Their records are public and I can assure you that if there were any wrong doing whatsoever the internet would be afire with every detail.

You know, I used to worry about China taking over the world, but honestly they look like a much better choice for a super power than the US is now.

I for one welcome our new communist overlords.

I think I saw a post about exactly this.

I think with a lot of technologies the first 95% is easy but the last 5% becomes exponentially harder.

With LLMs though I think the problem is conflating them with other forms of intelligence.

They're amazingly good at forming sentences, but they're unable to do real actual work.

From what I read it doesn't cover h5n1 but being vaccinated against the other flu variants obviously prevents you getting both h5n1 and some other preventable illness at the same time.

You're dead right though, getting a flu shot is a good way to be prepared.

General preparedness for h5n1 has been in the back of my mind for a while but your comment has motivated me to tick a few things off the list.

I'll order up some masks, sanitiser, and TP.

I had a flu shot a few months ago, but probably due for a covid top up.

Thanks, I hate it.

My kids are too young to ask questions, but I intend to do my best to give them good thorough answers, including doing my best to find out when I don't really know the answer.

The universal truth with anything to do with money is that the have nots do the heavy lifting.

Rain, hail, or shine, it's the working class that bear the brunt.

You probably already know this but for clarity it sounds like the flu shot won't protect you from h5n1

Voters usually have a pretty good idea of whats happening but it's part of a general malaise of misinformation.

That's daft.

Develop wherever you like the dev tools, test everywhere.

I dabble in web development.

I use ungoogled chromium for that. LibreWolf for most other things.

It sucks because it's performative.

"Look at me being mean to these poor people".

Google added that the name Gulf of Mexico will remain displayed for users in Mexico. Users in other countries will see both names, the company said.

Yeah. "Both Names" for other countries is a bit lame but better than just Gulf of America everywhere.

The Denali / McKinley thing is pretty awful though. I hadn't realised Trump had changed that too.